Meanwhile those pesky fighters and gunboats continue their assault on the AN forces.

Damaging the another frigate. Despite it’s mangled look it actually received great armor rolls, 3 critical successes in a row.

BavariaThe last Bavarian cruiser decides it’s badass time and charges the Praetorians.

The crew of the Life on Mars begins to seriously start fearing for their lives.

AvaloniansThe Avalonians are saddened to hear of the death of their leader Uther Pendragon, but are only further inspired to cause moar karnage.

The left wing of the Space Oddity is shredded like tissue paper from the combined firepower of the Avalonians.

MASSMASS begins to split into two groups, formation alpha and formation beta. Formation alpha is picture here and attacks the Bavarian cruiser.

Luckily for the Bavarians, while a lot of the structure is damaged most of the weapons remain functional.

Formation beta sneaks behind the Praetorians...

...and unlike the Trattorians, have no problems killing Siri loyalists.

Siri LoyalistsThe Siri Loyalists regroup from their losses.

Their fighters are deployed and move up, but without any nearby Trattorians to dogfight they gang up on a cruiser instead.

What I’ve noticed in this game are how effective fighters are. Really, they’re quite useful.

The as-of-yet anonymous captain of the destroyer makes a private call to the captain of his Trattorian counterpart.

After some hushed discussion, the Trattorian decides to turn traitor and support Siri an the Third Alliance.

The Siri cruisers nearly completely destroy the left wing of the Space Oddity. Practically the only thing remaining is the engine.

The destroyer handles the battleship, and while it causes minor damage to it structurally, it unleashes its true weapon: its EMP Death Cannons fry the electronics of the Life on Mars and collaterally disable the Space Oddity. While the damage can be fixed thanks to Praetoria’s talented engineers onboard, the two ships will be forced to be immobile and helpless next turn.

Now now now, Ex_Bajir, I know you’ve been waiting to be called on as a secret faction. Good things come to those who wait...

Secret Faction A Unlocked: Lady Vega II:

Captain Roberto: Fuck yeah time for more karnage everyone!

*Note the Inquistadores will fight for no one but themselves. They will kill men on both sides of the battle lines just for the lulz.

@IVhorseman: Because the drop pods should be facing at an angle toward Life on Mars, but the problem with LDD is that unless I put it on a turntable/stud it will have to face a cardinal direction. I'm well aware of where it's headed though.